Planning And Goal Setting For Personal Success - Softcover

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An entrepreneur at heart, Samuel Blankson blends art, creativity, passion, business acumen, and financial expertise with careful planning and execution in the achievement of measurable results. He is an avid reader, writer, researcher, and securities trader.

He is an advocate of self-empowerment and an individual’s ability to control their destiny through the achievement of personal freedom from economic, financial, spiritual, social, mental, and interrelationship restrictions. Samuel is constantly working to push the boundaries of personal achievements to their limits, recognising that these limits are
only self-imposed.

Samuel has authored over twenty books (How to Destroy Your Debts, Living the Ultimate Truth, Developing Personal Integrity, The Practical Guide to Total Financial Freedom volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Attitude are some of these works). He has written over 100 songs, sixty of which are featured in Sixty Original Song Lyrics. He writes poetry, creates artwork, and works daily to express his creativity in many ways.

Having successfully run several businesses, Samuel diversified into securities trading over a decade ago, with great success. After learning from the masters of the time, Samuel progressed to develop his own methods and systems for successful trading. Today, he trades many financial instruments and has developed ways of successfully generating profits from his many investments.

A firm believer in knowledge sharing, Samuel travels the globe, teaching and sharing his personal knowledge with groups of friends, associates, and anyone who seeks to improve their life. This is the spirit of Samuel Blankson, a God centred philanthropist, overcomer, and high achiever.

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What is a successful life?
There are many definitions for a successful life. Most of these definitions are centered on religion, family life or your career. However, what really is a successful life? Is a life successful if you achieve success in your career, or in your church, mosque, synagogue or temple? Is a life successful if you are married to the same partner, and raise great kids? Is a life successful if you rise to the top of your field and achieve the highest honor in your field of expertise?

You may say yes to all the above; however, what if you achieve one of the above successes at the expense of other areas of your life? What if you become a company director of a multi billion conglomerate, but your family life is in tatters? Would you still be leading a successful life?

What if you are the worlds leading spiritual leader, but due to your busy schedule, you become a stranger to your family? Would you still be leading a successful life? You can see from the two examples that success without balance is limited and incomplete. In many cases, success in an unbalanced life will lead to failure. Therefore, you will only achieve true success through a balanced life.

The eight areas of your life
To gain balance in your life, you should first, understand the eight areas of your life, and second understand how they fit together. The eight areas of your life are:

1. Spiritual
2. Family
3. Relationships
4. Health
5. Charity and Conservation
6. Educational
7. Financial and Career
8. Recreational and Fun

Unless you are succeeding in all these areas, you are not leading a truly successful life. Can you imagine leading successful life without a spiritual aspect? That would not be true success, would it? Can you imagine leading a successful life without a successful family life? This also is not living a successful life.

Similarly, you cannot lead a successful life withoutsuccessful relationship, great health, financial success, a healthy sense of fun and rejuvenating recreational activities, a charitable and grateful attitude. Nor can you lead a successful life without a sense of curiosity and hunger to learn and improve your knowledge, wisdom and your environment.

Education is critical to success in all areas of your life. Leading your life in ignorance, without education will restrict how successful you can become in other areas. Achieving success in a few of these areas may make you temporarily happy, but eventually you will come to realize that something is missing from your life. Life without spirituality, good health, your friends, your family, financial means, fun, and a sense of contribution and gratefulness would be unfulfilling.

Spiritual
This life area is covered first because it is the most important. Your spiritual life is the foundation upon which you should centre all your other life areas. Without a strong spiritual root, your life will decay and wither over time. You will have a hunger that no food, achievement, or success can quench. Your spirituality need not be religious, it just needs to be a belief you hold about your origin, purpose, and place in the universe. Until you know how the universe came to be from nothing, you can only deduce that it was created by a Superior Force.

Having a conscious understanding of this single fact will humble and inspire you to be grateful for being included in the plans of this Superior Force, whom some call God, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, Mother Nature and many other names all over the world. Believing in this force will relieve you from many of the pressures that stem from your life getting out of control. In times when you cannot control events or circumstances in your life, knowing that a Superior Entity is out there looking out for you, with a plan in which you have a divine place, will reassure and give you hope. Because of the importance of your spiritual life, it is essential that you learn to plan and set goals to maintain and improve on it. Reaching higher levels of spirituality by itself will be the crowning of your life s successes.

Family
The members of your family are the only people on this planet with whom you have a natural link. When your relationship with them is strong, you will derive a lot of love, pleasure, affection, protection, and a great sense of belonging from them. It is essential that you seek this closeness in your family relationships. Throughout difficult times in your life, you can always turn to your close family for love, help, understanding, and encouragement. You will be able to confide intimately with them, and discuss and safely entrust sensitive and private matters, in their hands. There are three main groups of family members. These are as follows:

1. Your spouse and children.
2. Your parents, grandparents, and siblings.
3. Your relatives and family friends.

You will have a different relationship with each member of your family. Developing closer ties, trust, and love in these relationships, will create a unique support system that will serve and benefit you, all through your life. It is thus imperative that you plan and set goals to achieve a close and a more harmonious relationship with your family members.

Relationships
After family, you have friends, acquaintances, work colleagues, and associates. Often, your friends may be closer to you than your family; however, the majority of friendships are transitory. You may have heard of the term fair weather friend. In most cases, your friends will cross your life path during a specific period in your life. When your situation, interests, or geographical location changes, so will your friendship relationships, and your good friends can eventually become acquaintances.

Because of this transitory nature of most friendships, it is important to enjoy your friendships now. Take them for what they are, and do not try to forcefully hold on to friendships that have passed their sell-by-date. This neediness will lead to other problems and failure in your relationships. If you are changing and growing in your life in one direction and your friends are similarly changing in other directions, there will come a time when you no longer can have the same intimacy and time together that you may have enjoyed
before.

For new friendships to develop, you must have space in your life for them. By holding on to stale, dead, and expired friendships, you withhold the opportunity for new friends to enter into your life. Developing an amiable friendly personality and attitude will draw many friends to you. This requires planning and goal setting to achieve. Occasionally you will develop a friendship that transcends life situations, geographical locations, and current interests. These are the best type of friendships.

Cherish these friendships. Nurture them and build on to them with love, affection, understanding, and intimacy. Plan and set goals to improve on these friendships and they will enrich your life, and aid you in succeeding in other areas of your life. Work colleagues and associates are normally related to a career, work, business, or a shared interest; therefore, when you no longer work in the same place, follow the same interest, or undertake the same activities, you will naturally see and spend less time with the people involved in that world. Again, enjoy these relationships for what they are now.

Developing a corporative, amiable, assertive, confident, and trustworthy personality will help you in your work, career, hobby, and all other activities and situations you find yourself in throughout your life. To do this effectively and efficiently, you will need to plan, set goals, and take action to achieve these goals.

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